Fresher’s week is over

Byrichard

Fresher’s week is over and lessons start this week. It means being serious a little more of the time than over the past week.

I’ve been patrolling the flats already, going from room to room and seeing lots of people, lots of new faces.  This is an easy and a hard job. It’s easy because it involves little more than walking and chatting with people. It’s hard because occasionally you’re patrolling until the sun rises. you need to go to kitchens and halls to make sure that people are not too loud. Occasionally they’re open to this idea.

Tuesday I have my first lessons and that’s going to be interesting, seeing how much extra work there will be from this time onwards.

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Tomorrow I’m back in London

Byrichard

Yesterday I made a phone call after writing an e-mail to see about getting cheaper accomodation through one method and it went well. I’m going to be back in London tomorrow, once I’ve finished packing all my stuff into a suitcase.

It’s the usual good and bad. It’s good because although I’m leaving my skills are still in demand so there’s a chance I’ll be in demand when I get back. it’s It’s good because I’m looking forward to being back in England and getting this final year out of the way.

It’s bad because I would prefer to do another year of uni rather than being a student. I met some interesting people and it’s a shame I’m leaving.

Tomorrow is the moment when I put Geneva on hold and take my London life out of standby.

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De-rushing

Byrichard

As I arrived home today, after a slightly more relaxed day I found that two tapes had arrived in the post. It’s the ones from the final fling. I still need to go through them and find usable footage. I’m going to be editing that over the next two or three days, depending on what the work load is for the other documentary.

I’m feeling inspired, thinking of the logistics of the first weeks back at uni. First I need to find a home, and once that’s done work on creating an action plan firstly for the year ahead academicaly but also for the smokescreen project. I need to make sure the project is far clearer in people’s minds and check that I have one or two crews that are ready to do the work professionaly, making sure to get a variety of shots for dynamic video productions.

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Smokescreen

Byrichard

When mentioning smokescreen I always have the impression that it’s there to hide something but that’s the name of the student tv channel at uni. We’ve already been working on a number of things. We’ve been finding volunteers, preparing the logo and such.

Last night I was working on the content management system which would be used to get the website online. For the moment it’s devoid of content but that should change within the next few days and weeks.

To get a taste Smokescreen